Did you know?

In Britain, the ceremony of First Footing is traditionally observed in the early hours of New Year's Day. A piece of bread is left outside a door, with a piece of coal and a silver coin, and is supposed to bring you food, warmth and riches in the year ahead.

Did you know?

• 99 % of households buy bread
• We buy 12 million loaves of bread each day
• The longest loaf of bread ever baked was 9,200 metres long, that is nearly 30,184 feet! It was produced by a baker in Acapulco, Mexico in 1996.
• White Bread accounts for 70% of the bread we eat.
• One whole grain of wheat makes over 20,000 particles of flour.
• The overall consumption of sandwiches each year now tops 12 billion - which means we each eat over 230 sandwiches each year! (Source: British Sandwich Association)
• Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the first slice-and-wrap bread machine in 1928. By 1933 80% of all bread sold in the US was sliced and wrapped hence the phrase 'the best thing since sliced bread' was started.
• Sliced bread was introduced into the UK in the mid 1930's.